Part 40
The footnote scheme used lettered references, repeating a-z. On numerous of occasions, letters were repeated, and sometimes skipped. The numeric resequencing of notes here resolves those lapses. Footnotes are sometimes referred to directly in a footnote by its letter designation. The few direct references to a lettered note use the new numeric value.
The volume ends with an Index of Notes which directs the reader to all five volumes. The following anomolies have been detected:
The entry for the ‘game of cat’ in the Index to the Notes incorrectly references a note on p. 427. The note occurs on p. 527.
The entry for ‘ken’ refers to p. 129 of volumn 2. While the word is used there, there is no note provided. The intent may have been meant to refer to note 1167 on p. 549 of that volume.
The entry for ‘Peter-sameen’ refers to p. 214. The note appears on p. 142, and the reference has been corrected.
The entry for ‘skeldering’ refers to p. 535 of volume 3. The note appears on that page in volume 2. The entry has been corrected.
The entry for ‘sound’, referring to p. 206 of volume 1, is almost certainly in error. A note on that page glosses the word ‘swound’ (swoon). A note in the current volume for ‘sounded’ also defines the entry as ‘swooned’, which perhaps caused the confusion. The entry has been corrected. However, this should move that entry alphabetically, but it remains in place and is noted below.
Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
15.24 I’m right glad on’t[.] Added. 207.26 no stuff fit for their mouths[,/.] Replaced. 624.25 bi[r/z]le Replaced. 639.32 _s[w]ound_ Inserted.
NO WIT, NO HELP LIKE A WOMAN’S.
Vol. v. p. 23, l. 30.
_the widow’s notch shall lie open to you_] This passage is, I think, explained by the following line in our author’s _Triumphs of Truth_;
“The very _nooks_ where beldams hide their gold.” p. 229 of the same vol.
Vol. v. p. 77, last line.
“To bid a _slander_ welcome than a truth.”
I did quite right in substituting “_slander_” for “slave.” These words were frequently confounded by the old printers.
“Revenge and Death Like _slander_ [read _slaves_] attend the sword of Calymath.” _The Travailes of The Three English Brothers_ (by Day, W. Rowley, and Wilkins), 1607, sig. C 4.
Vol. v. p. 131, l. 3.
_I from the baker’s ditch_] So in Brome’s _Sparagus Garden_, 1640, “Sheart, Coulter, we be vallen into _the Bakers ditch_.” Sig. K 3. The ancient way of punishing bakers, who did not give full weight, was by the cucking-stool (see Grey’s note on _Hudibras_, P. iii. C. iii. v. 609); qy. is that punishment alluded to in the above passages?
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THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.
Vol. v. p. 148, l. 5.
_Ill May-Day_] i. e. Evil May-day—so called from the rising of the London apprentices against the foreigners, on the first of May, 1517: see _The Story of Ill May-Day, &c._, and the editor’s illustrations, in Evans’s _Old Ballads_, vol. iii. p. 76, ed. 1810.
Vol. v. p. 148, l. 9.
_Midsummer-Eve, that watches warmest_] Perhaps this is an allusion to the setting out of the Midsummer watch: see Herbert’s _Hist. of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London_, vol. i. p. 196, sqq.
Vol. v. p. 149, note 213.
“i. e. wife.”
Read
“i. e. city-wife.”
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THE TRIUMPHS OF INTEGRITY.
Vol. v. p. 310, l. 1.
“pegmes.”
Read
“pegms.”
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THE BLACK BOOK.
Vol. v. p. 543, l. 15.
_ketlers_] This word occurs in Kemp’s _Nine daies wonder_, 1600; “Those that haue shewne themselues honest men, I wil set before them this Caracter, H. for honesty; before the other Bench-whistlers shal stand K. for _ketlers_ and keistrels, that wil driue a good companion without need in them to contend for his owne.”